puppet plugin Man Page

NAME

puppet-plugin - Interact with the Puppet plugin system.

SYNOPSIS

puppet plugin action

DESCRIPTION

This subcommand provides network access to the puppet master's store of
plugins.

The puppet master serves Ruby code collected from the lib directories
of its modules. These plugins can be used on agent nodes to extend
Facter and implement custom types and providers. Plugins are normally
downloaded by puppet agent during the course of a run.

OPTIONS

Note that any setting that's valid in the configuration
file is also a valid long argument, although it may or may not be
relevant to the present action. For example, server and run_mode are valid
settings, so you can specify --server <servername>, or
--run_mode <runmode> as an argument.

The format in which to render output. The most common formats are json,
s (string), yaml, and console, but other options such as dot are
sometimes available.

--verbose

Whether to log verbosely.

--debug

Whether to log debug information.

ACTIONS

download - Download plugins from the puppet master.

SYNOPSIS

puppet plugin download

DESCRIPTION

Downloads plugins from the configured puppet master. Any plugins
downloaded in this way will be used in all subsequent Puppet activity.
This action modifies files on disk.

RETURNS

A list of the files downloaded, or a confirmation that no files were
downloaded. When used from the Ruby API, this action returns an array of
the files downloaded, which will be empty if none were retrieved.